Destroyer’s Rubies
by Daniel Brantley
posted March 27, 2006
Destroyer
Destroyer’s Rubies
Merge Records (www.mergerecords.com)
Dan Bejar, the brains behind Destroyer and member of the New Pornographers, is on his seventh album as a solo artist. If you keep up with music, you know seven albums are more than most non-side-project bands ever put out. What makes Bejar able to continually put out new albums? He’s weird, and I mean really weird.
With the voice of Bob Dylan and a musical sensibility that feels like a culmination of Jim Henson, the Beetles and an astronaut lost in space, Bejar has a niche that will not be broken in to by anyone else. Despite the fact that Destroyer’s Rubies should probably be inaccessible, listening to it won’t hurt your head as long as you leave the lyric sheet unread.
Finally…In the opening nine and one-half minute track, “Rubies,” Bejar reinstates the old adage that “All good things must come to an end.” Fortunately for Bejar and his compatriots in Destroyer, it looks
like the end is far from near.
Daniel Brantley
daniel.brantley@truenorthcustom.com
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